N.W.A. reuniting for BET festival

Three surviving members of the group N.W.A., which defined West Coast gangsta rap and forever changed American music culture, will reunite for a performance at the BET Experience in Los Angeles on June 27, according to an interview in Rolling Stone with founding member Ice Cube. Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella will perform N.W.A material together for the first time in 26 years. Cube and Ren most recently performed together in 2000; Yella hasn’t joined them since 1989. The group’s other core member, Eazy-E, died in 1995 from complications of AIDS.

Dr. Dre, perhaps the group’s best-known figure, isn’t scheduled to perform with them, but Cube didn’t rule it out.

“If you wish upon a star, you never know. … I hope he blesses us with his presence. But if not, I’ve been rockin’ for a long time without anybody. So whoever shows up, I’m still gonna rock. Whoever don’t show up, we still gonna rock.”

Cube also mentioned that the N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton” may feature new music from the group.

“Our expectation level is so high, and if we meet our threshold, the world gets to hear what it is,” Cube said. “If we don’t, we still need more time together to make it happen.” B.B. King estate lawsuit: Just days after blues legend B.B. King was laid to rest near his birthplace in the Mississippi Delta, a battle over his estate is moving from the headlines to the courthouse in Las Vegas. Attorneys for King’s designated executor, LaVerne Toney, have filed documents in a Nevada court to fend off allegations that King family members were kept away in his dying days, that he was mistreated medically and that his money was siphoned off before he died May14 at his Las Vegas home at age 89.